I can almost always tell when something is in error where I work. Usually it starts with "We have been directed by the Government to..." The government workers that direct us to do stupid things are not incompetent, they, like we are caught up in an incompetent bureaucracy.
>Government bureaucrats have a knee-jerk reaction to stamp the highest-possible classification on everything, just "to be safe."
Not the ones I've worked with. Storing SECRET and above costs money, time, and labor, and has penalties if you screw up and disclose it. "FOUO" is much more common.
I am a defense contractor and agree with the reply. We and our government sponsors do everything we can to ensure nothing is confidential or higher. However, we are directed (by government officials) to label everything, including routine email, FOUO to prevent/hinder public disclosure through freedom of information laws.
I would be happy if in games we could talk about homosexuality
That sounds like a great game! I can see it now, it would be 1 player vs the computer, with both characters sitting at a table talking about homosexuality. No movement, no action just fast paced conversation - but not voice, you'd have to type the conversation on a really small keyboard.
I could really see this taking off. There could be spin-offs about religion, politics, abortion....
I have decades of experience in software development and BS and MS degrees in computer science. I worked in software development full time while earning both of these degrees.
I apologize, you are not the type of person I pictured. You have experience and education.
People hate Microsoft because they make shoddy products, and still dominate the market.
I disagree. Microsoft products have their share of problems, but I think most people hate MS because they dominate the market. I'd bet that if Linux dominated the market for the last 20 years, the slashdot crowd would be anti-linux and pro-MS. Human nature is to root for the underdog and bash the winner.
Google was the darling of slashdot a yearish ago, and now we see more and more negative comments about Google.
...however now I have had some graduate level marketing classes...
Good point! As everyone in school knows, what they teach in class is exactly how it works in the "real" world. However, as everyone that is working in a given field knows, new graduates are nearly useless until they learn how to apply what they learned to the real world.
I've posted this before, but funding is not the problem with the education system. The problem is that it was designed to fail. Check out http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/. If you read the book "The Underground History of American Education" (free online) you can see quotes like:
We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. - Woodrow Wilson
Rockefeller's General Education Board - in a document called Occasional Letter Number One (1906):
In our dreams...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple...we will organize children...and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
In 1975 Gerald Bracey, a leading professional promoter of government schooling, wrote in his annual report to clients: "We must continue to produce an uneducated social class."
I could go on, but it makes me sick. Read the book
It still seems that not eating massive amounts of sugar (as most Americans do) might help prevent diabetes, too.
I am sick and tired of people suggesting that I have some sort of responsibility and accountability for my actions. We Americans can do, say, and act any way we like without consequences. And if someone does try to hold me accountable, I will sue the hell out of them and whine to my congressman about the need for the government to take care of victims like me.
but what kind of infrastructure does it take to monitor 12.5 million people?
According to wikipedia, during the cold war it was estimated that one in fifty East Germans were monitoring other East Germans for the Stasi.
So, scaling the numbers up for China, I'd guess that they plan on having about 12.5 million informants. when everyone monitors everyone, who can you trust? Without the ability to trust your neighbor, the government can ensure continued growing power over its citizens lives without fear of revolt.
Do I look like your personal research assistant? These climatologists may be able to help you if you ask politely.
You may not "look like" my personal research assistant, but you did research (although incomplete) and provided me a place to find the answer. Thank you very much.
I will go as far as to consider registering the partnership at a civil notary...I will not, however, partake in ceremonies that have their roots in organized religion.
Darn, even notaries have their toots in organized religion!
NOTARII was the term given to shorthand writers who in the early days of the Christian Church reported the examinations and trials of the early Christian martyrs and confessors. They were employed to take down in writing the whole judicial process of the Roman judges against the martyrs, and to write out the circumstances of their examination and passion. The early notary recorded the questions put to the Martyrs and the answers they gave.
The first institution of these NOTARII at Rome was under the Emperor Fabian. Notaries were also employed to take down the discourse of eloquent preachers. By this means many of St Chrystostom's sermons were preserved.
I would like to think that nobody here is stupid enough to give the real answers to those kind of questions. The others will have the pet's name as their password anyway, so it's irrelevant.
I went to the Paris Hilton School of IT Security and the answer to all my questions is "tinkerbell."
...then they should have at least by probe or similarly conquered or explored this galaxy, or send a lot of radio signal[s]. But we see nothing.
Maybe we are unique in that we like to kill each other. Most of the technology that we assume ET has, like radio communication and space flight, was developed on earth for war. Yes, it allows us to beam Jerry Springer around the planet (proving to any alien civilization that there is nothing to see on earth - keep moving along), but war was what it was developed for.
I have yet to meet male that has won that argument.
I have yet to meet a male that has won any argument. Unless you count winning as giving your wife the house, half your possessions, and most of your future income, while getting to keep all the debt.
But open standards for state documents is not a campaign issue. I don't see how my vote has any influence over it.
Budget, government efficiency, consumer choice are not campaign issues? Your vote has no influence unless you let your representatives know how you will use it...and then follow through at the next election. Then after the election let the winner and loser know why you voted for/against them.
When enough people do that, real change will take place.
it still less secure than having separate credentials to access everything.
Which is why identity thieves love the US Social Security Number. Find one number (and the victim's name), and you have access to every financial detail of a person's life.
Sure, you might need a few more bits of information, like mother's maiden name, address, etc., but the social security number makes large scale identity theft possible.
How come when I go to http://www.designofsites.com/index.htm, the book shown is the first edition, yet the link at the bottom of the review is for the second edition?
The book looks very good, and I will purchase it today, but you'd think that the author's website would have been updated, you know, to make the design of the site....
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Is there any consensus in the geek community about which format is liked best?
I think girl/girl format is preferred by the majority of geeks, but I am still partial to girl/girl/guy.
Has anyone else noticed that they now have robot planes that can be flown from the other side of the world, and shoot missiles at people on the ground, but yet the average citizen's flying car is yet to materialize? Now we're being told that they have to make cars smaller to make 'em run on batteries, even with fuel cell technology etc.
Seems to me that there might be something going on here besides technological limitations. I wonder when governments realised it would be hard to track and chase people who could travel in three dimensions easily?
Has anyone else noticed how many people run out of gas on the roads everyday? At least they are on the ground and not falling out of the sky when they do it!
he asked me how the TSA could overcome its negative image.
How about looking for terrorists/bad guys and not toothpaste, water bottles, mouthwash, etc. I realize all those could hide bad stuff, but several terrorists with sharpened pencils and metal pens can do a lot of damage in a confined area like a plane.
Why is it that so many school districts are so quick to buy expensive Micro$soft software when free (and sometimes better) alternatives exist, then turn around and complain about not having enough money?
This happens because the local control of public schools is a myth. The further the control from the local community, the less accountability the school has to the community. Add in the unconstitutional public school support from the Federal Government with the funded/unfunded mandates that go along with federal funding(no child left behind), and the control of the school is now in the hands of Congress.
Go to http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/ and read the (free online) book, Underground History of American Education and you will see why our schools and the administrators are so incompetent.
..welcome this extraordinary event. It is high time that the geekier sports such as video gaming be given a chance on network television. Imagine the thousands of gamers that will be affected by this.I for one will be affected by reliving that magical time in my life when my older brother would take my game away from me and make me watch him play. At least when it is on TV, there will be commercials. Now, if I can just get my neighbor to come over and beat the crap out of me before the game starts....
Unless your experience was different than mine, games are fun to play, not watch.
Actually, game prices are falling. In the late 80's and early 90's, I was paying US$45 per game, according to the inflation calculators that I found (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl) the price is roughly US$20 cheaper today (at US$60) than then (adjusted for inflation of course).
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I can almost always tell when something is in error where I work. Usually it starts with "We have been directed by the Government to..." The government workers that direct us to do stupid things are not incompetent, they, like we are caught up in an incompetent bureaucracy.
I could really see this taking off. There could be spin-offs about religion, politics, abortion....
Google was the darling of slashdot a yearish ago, and now we see more and more negative comments about Google.
We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. - Woodrow Wilson
Rockefeller's General Education Board - in a document called Occasional Letter Number One (1906):
In our dreams...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple...we will organize children...and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
In 1975 Gerald Bracey, a leading professional promoter of government schooling, wrote in his annual report to clients: "We must continue to produce an uneducated social class."
I could go on, but it makes me sick. Read the book
So, scaling the numbers up for China, I'd guess that they plan on having about 12.5 million informants. when everyone monitors everyone, who can you trust? Without the ability to trust your neighbor, the government can ensure continued growing power over its citizens lives without fear of revolt.
I do not doubt the validity of the models given our current level of understanding, the data is what concerns me.
NOTARII was the term given to shorthand writers who in the early days of the Christian Church reported the examinations and trials of the early Christian martyrs and confessors. They were employed to take down in writing the whole judicial process of the Roman judges against the martyrs, and to write out the circumstances of their examination and passion. The early notary recorded the questions put to the Martyrs and the answers they gave.
The first institution of these NOTARII at Rome was under the Emperor Fabian. Notaries were also employed to take down the discourse of eloquent preachers. By this means many of St Chrystostom's sermons were preserved.
When enough people do that, real change will take place.
Sure, you might need a few more bits of information, like mother's maiden name, address, etc., but the social security number makes large scale identity theft possible.
The book looks very good, and I will purchase it today, but you'd think that the author's website would have been updated, you know, to make the design of the site....
Go to http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/ and read the (free online) book, Underground History of American Education and you will see why our schools and the administrators are so incompetent.
Unless your experience was different than mine, games are fun to play, not watch.
Actually, game prices are falling. In the late 80's and early 90's, I was paying US$45 per game, according to the inflation calculators that I found (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl) the price is roughly US$20 cheaper today (at US$60) than then (adjusted for inflation of course).